I'm Dan Bassill. I encourage you to read these blogs weekly and share them with your networks.
Tutor/Mentor Blog
Mapping for Justice Blog
Tutor/Mentor Exchange Blog
Intern blog - click here
Listen to Podcast describing Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) - click here
New additions to the library - click here
To help you navigate the site, we've numbered sections of the home page on this graphic.
1) this is a progression of steps you should take to better understand issues, build a geographic distribution of resources and programs, involved leadership from all sectors, start new programs where needed, etc.
2) this is a list of links to other web sites we host with additional information
3) these are links to blog articles that connect the information on the web site to current events and attempt to build greater support for tutor/mentor programs in more places
4) the menu bar at the top of the page points to information spread throughout the site, and to visualizations done by interns to help build a better understanding of our strategies
5) this points to a list of Chicago tutor/mentor programs where you can volunteer time or talent; and to pages where you can offer support for helping continue the work being done by Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC.
6) this section includes history, mission, planning resources, etc.
7-9) The middle section of the web site will be refreshed regularly to focus on some of the ideas contained in the sections along either side of the home page. Once you browse through the site and the links you'll see that this web site provides a wide range of information in many different sections. It may be difficult for first-time visitors to know where to start, or what to look for.
View this video to help you navigate this site, created by an intern from South Korea and IIT in Chicago
Below are additional visualizations created by interns to illustrate ideas originally posted in Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC blog articles. Browse past articles on the Intern blog to see meet some of the interns. View the intern workspace on the Tutor/Mentor Connection forum.
Join this project. Students and volunteers from many places can be creating interpretations of these ideas and sharing them with people in their own communities. Email tutormentor2 at earthlink.net to learn more.
NOTE: some of the projects below are created using Prezi.com. When viewing the presentation click in the lower right corner of the image area and you can create a 'full screen' view.
|
Introduction of work done by other interns in past years.
This graphic is from an video posted on YouTube, done by Kyungryul Kim, a 2013 IIT Intern. It's goal is to give attention to projects done by past interns. |
Introduction of past interns, using Prezi. |
|
|
|
If we want more youth to succeed in school, what are actions needed to support youth tutor/mentor programs in more places? Introduction of Tutor/Mentor Strategy by Byeonghui Kim, using Prezi, 2013 |
|
 Planning Strategy for War on Poverty, video by Kyungryul Kim, 2013 intern |
If we want high quality tutor/mentor programs in more places, what are strtegies that will lead to this? Four This is different version of the "problem solving" strategy seen above. |
|
|
Power of Small Change - Video, by Sunjoong Yoo, 2014 intern. Click here to view.
|
This video was created by SUNJOONG YOO, and IIT intern from South Korea working with the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC during 2014. It enplanes ideas in this blog article.
|
|
 This Prezi visualization, by Sunjoong Yoo, 2014 intern, introuduces work done by past interns - click here to view |
This is See all four here |
Return to first page of Strategy Presentations - Click here
Know your network. Use your Network.
This graphic is part of an essay that you can read at this link. It describes a need to share ideas from the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC with a growing number of people in Chicago and around the country if we are to achieve long-term success in connecting larger numbers of inner city K-12 youth with adult tutors/mentors through well-organized non-school and school-based tutor/mentor programs.
What is Network Analysis?
If you have not thought much about network analysis, or how networks of people need to work together to solve complex problems, the links below provide a path for your learning.
How does this impact youth?
If you would like to follow our progress in mapping and understanding the Tutor/Mentor Connection network which has grown since 1975 when founder Dan Bassill began his leadership of a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in Chicago, follow the links below.
Understand Geographic Mapping, Too.
Tutor/Mentor Connection has piloted uses of GIS maps since 1994. See ideas here, here, and here.
Links to follow:
* Social Network Analysis Workspace for Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC and Tutor/Mentor Connection - here
* Read report showing analysis of 1994-2014 Tutor/Mentor Conferences by IVMOOC2015 team at Indiana University. Looking for researchers who will do follow up on this work
* Collaboration and Community building articles - library
* Social Capital articles and research articles - Library
* Articles on Tutor/Mentor Blog. a) Network Building, b) Network Analysis c) Networking
* Social Capital links in Wordpress blog
* Mapping social network using NodeXL - tutorial
* Talent needed to support this work - network map (this could be used as worksheet for any organization)
Work Done to Map Tutor/Mentor Connection Network Growth
* Tutor/Mentor Conference analysis - 2008-2009
* Maps showing Tutor/Mentor Conference participation
* Growth of Ning network from 2007-2012 - Intern project
* Building Networks of Purpose - Network Analysis using Facebook Group . This also is an example of how SNA could demonstrate value of long-term tutor/mentor programs.
New advances in network mapping -
Visit the ICouldBe web site and follow the work they have started to expand social capital and map network growth of their students.
Between 1993 and 2015 interns from many colleges and universities helped the Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC share ideas and strategies by creating visualizations that interpreted ideas they saw on our blogs. Many were interns from South Korea and China. Most were from IIT in Chicago.
On this page are some of the visualizations created using Adobe Flash animation, which is no longer supported. These have been embedded into videos so you can still view them. As you look at these consider ways your own students might interpret the same ideas, but focused on your community, not on Chicago.
Visit this page to see additional videos and additional visualizations created by interns.
Note. Most of these videos were created prior to 2018 and still show a PO Box mailing address. Use the contact us page to find current information.
This is a second video with this animation.
View this blog article showing how this project was first created by Alan Yoo and Rack Hyu Shin in January 2009, then updated in the fall by Gun Woong Go and Sung Joong Kim. The narration was provided by Chris Warren, our 2008-09 NUPIP Fellow.
This was a second project created in 2009 by Gun Woong Go and Sung Joong Kim. Since flash animation no longer works you can view the animation in the video link shown above.
This Flash Animation was created in 2010 by Eunsoo Lee and Jawon Koo, from South Korea. Read about it in this blog article.this blog article.
This blog article shows the original version used to create this animation.
This an
Read this article to see how In Hee Cho, and intern from South Korea, created this animation in 2011. In this article you can see the first version of this animation, created in 2007 by an intern from Hong Kong.
This presentation was created in 2010 by Li Li, a University of Michigan graduate student who was part of an Alternative Spring Break Program - click here
This animation was created by an intern from South Korea in 2011, using this article as a starting point.
This animation was created by Sam Lee, an intern from South Korea, in 2011.
This Prezi visualization was created by SunJoong Yoo in 2014 to show work done by previous interns. This type of project could be done in many schools, helping connect people and ideas from past years.
This was the second part of a Flash Animation project created by Eunsoo Lee and Jawon Koo in 2010.
This video was created in 2015 by Wona Chang, and intern from South Korea to draw attention to the information in this concept map.
Visit this blog article to see network analysis work done in 2012 by Mina Song and Chul Wan Park, interns from South Korea.
The work done by interns that is shown on this and other pages demonstrates a role that students at any college or high school could take. Imagine going to your school's website and find a collection of visualizations similar to what I show on these pages.
This is one of four PSA videos created in 2014 by Sun Jong Yoo, an intern from South Korea. View the Shoppers Guide pdf at this link.
This is one of four PSA videos created in 2014 by Sun Jong Yoo, an intern from South Korea. View the PDF at this link.
one of four shot PSA videos created by Sunjoong Yoo in 2014 to call attention to essays posted on Scribd.com